Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
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Whether a woman's running for office or she's supporting her husband who's running for office and she gets criticised for wearing open-toed shoes or for the colour of her coat, there's just a lot of history that you bear if you are a woman who puts herself out in the political arena.
Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.
At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.
I want more women to run countries. There'd be more peace on Earth.
When people ask me why I am running as a woman, I always answer, 'What choice do I have?'
A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.
Research shows that when women are empowered as political leaders, countries often experience higher standards of living with positive developments in education, infrastructure, and health care.
I am now concerned with women's issues in a different way: women from Afghanistan, from Cambodia.
I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.
Women run the small country called Home, millions of us do it in our spare time, and no one who doesn't run that small country really knows what it feels like in the dead of night when task lists jitter like tickertape through your seething brain.